Race is irrelevant

Reader Horace Chamberlain ("A setback for equality," Aug. 11) doesn't understand the issues involved in school integration-segregation. The whole point of the civil rights movement is that skin color is irrelevant to almost any aspect of human activity. When the Supreme Court ruled that laws requiring segregated schools were illegal, it was simply recognizing this principle.
After years of court decisions and laws requiring students to attend schools based on their skin color, the Supreme Court is finally returning to the principle that skin color is irrelevant and that such laws are illegal. The court is to be applauded, not condemned.